, 1887-04-05
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

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SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
March fires cost the United States and
Canada $40, $50, 900.
-Four thousand emigrants were started
West from Castle Garden yesterday.
A sharp shock of earthquake was felt
at Antigua and st. Kits. W. |. on Satur-
day.
Miss Catharinc Wolfe, a well known
charitable lady of New York City, died
yesterday.
A new cabinet has been formed at
Rome, with Signor Depretis us minister of
foreign affairs.
The steamer Saragossa. OF Baltimore,
recently foundered off the coast Of Ber-
muda. No lives lost.
The pope is said to contemplate the
establishment of separate nunciatures for
Prussia and for Germany.
William S. Pierce, associate justice of
the court of common pleas at Philadel-
phia, died yesterday, aged 70.
Five men belonging to the American
man of-war Saratoga were drowned a few
days off the island of Trinidad,
The United States grand jury at San
Francisco has returned forty indictments
for conspiracy and perjury connected with
fraudulent land surveys.
The two men arrested at Sofia for an
attempt to assassinate the project of Rust
chuck are natives of Russian Bessarabia,
named Karzoff and Ivanoff.
The roof of a church at Linguacossa,
Sicily, tell without warning during serv-
ices on Sunday, burying beneath 1t 100
persons, forty of whom were killed.
A false report OF the wrecking Of the
Cunard steamship Scythia on the Massa-
chusetts coast has created great excite.
Inent in Boston during the last few days.
The Consumers Gaslight and Coke
company, of Chicago, has notified its en-
ployes that they must submit to reduc-
tions of from fifty to twenty cents day.
A severe blizzard is reported from Da-
kota, with apprehension of a snow block
ade of the Northern Pacific. At Yank-
ton the mercury fell so in twenty-four
hours.
Four fires occurred at Clarksville, Tenn,
on Sunday afternoon, causing an aggre-
gate loss of $3.50, 900. Great excitement
prevails on account OF suspected incen-
diarism.
On Sunday night an attempt was made
at Patterson, N. j., to blow up street cars
by placing torpedoes on the track. This
is the third attempt Of the kind recently
attempted at that place.
On Sunday morning the charred re-
mains of Mrs. John Maniecc were found
in the burned debris OF her house, twelve
miles south of Mitchell, Oak. There is a
suspicion of foul play.
The ameer of Afghanistan has appealed
to India for support against n combination
of native tribes. Indian papers assert
that the viceroy has received disquieting
news from Afghanistan.
A mill-dam at Ingersoll. Ont was car
ried away yesterday morning by a freshet.
A tenement house occupied by four fam
lilies was swept away by the flood and
half a dozen people drowned.
Judge Gresham. in the United States
circuit court at Chicago, yesterday, APP
pointed Gen. John McNulta to succeed
Judge Cooley as receiver of the Wabash
railway lines east Of the Mississippi.
Joseph II. Bradley, a leading lawyer Of
Washington. died in that city on Sunday,
aged 81. He was engaged In the conduct
of many celebrated cases-among them
that of Suratt for conspiracy in the Lin
coin assassination plot.
A serious drouth prevails throughout
the interior of Texas. No general rains
have fallen since September, and there
have been few local showers during the
last six months. Farming operations,
except in the coast counties. have scarcely
commenced.
Bello Brown and John Brown, two no
torious despcradoes implicated in train
wrecking and robbing, were overtaken by
officers yesterday near Lajoya, n. NJ.
Bello was shot dead, and John surrend-
cred. This breaks up one OF the worst
gangs that ever infested New Mexico.
To use st. Jacobs oil argues wisdom,
as it is the only remedy which conquers
pain.
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